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[mikehz]

Bob Barr? BOB BARR?!

This may be the first time in over 30 years I have not voted for the LP candidate.

I'm wondering if this isn't a Republican plot to keep the Libertarian voters from splitting the ticket. The LP usually takes votes away from the Republicans. But many libertarians have stated that they will not vote for Barr.

Barr's campaign manager looks like Satan.

[Porcupine_in_MA]

Bob Barr? BOB BARR?!

This may be the first time in over 30 years I have not voted for the LP candidate.

I'm wondering if this isn't a Republican plot to keep the Libertarian voters from splitting the ticket. The LP usually takes votes away from the Republicans. But many libertarians have stated that they will not vote for Barr.

Barr's campaign manager looks like Satan.

This will be my first time since I joined in 95 that I won't be voting for the LP candidate. Barr's campaign manager looks like Satan and Barr looks like a cartoon bunny rabbit...the...horror....the......horror.

[BonerJoe]

TIM CONDON ENDORSES BOB BARR.

[NHArticleTen]

If there are actually "elections" I'll be writing in Ron Paul for President and Clint Eastwood for VP...

I'll be amazed if we're not in martial law and shtf fubar condition one by then...






-nevertheend-

[Alex Libman]

You people don't understand the difference between libertarian philosophy and libertarian politics.  The goal of LP shouldn't be to offer voters an instant libertarian utopia - which most Americans will react to by grabbing their pitchforks and putting the D&R socialists back in power.  Its goal should be to offer an alternative that is more libertarian than the two big bad socialist parties, and to compete with them for votes, including the votes of the people who aren't fully-baked libertarians yet.

Barr could bring more people to the party than anyone else, and since Ruwart supporters were sitting on their ass doing nothing I knew he'll get the nomination.  I like him less than 3-4 other LP candidates, but what can ya do...  So, yes, unless Ruwart purists get off their rear ends and start something like a Free State Party, Barr is the person I'll be voting for in November.

[rabidfurby]

35 minutes from Barr's nomination to the first apologist post. I expected a better response time from you, Alex.

[Porcupine_in_MA]

You people don't understand the difference between libertarian philosophy and libertarian politics.  The goal of LP shouldn't be to offer voters an instant libertarian utopia - which most Americans will react to by grabbing their pitchforks and putting the D&R socialists back in power. 

Alex how long have you been involved in the LP? Since when has the LP's goal EVER been to offer instant libertopia?

[Alex Libman]

35 minutes from Barr's nomination to the first apologist post. I expected a better response time from you, Alex.

I have a life you know.

Alex how long have you been involved in the LP? Since when has the LP's goal EVER been to offer instant libertopia?

That's what people like Ian seem to expect it to do...

[Taors]

*Starts humming Taps*

[mikehz]

The purpose of the LP ought to be to present itself as a true "Party of Principle," and by doing so goad the other parties toward freedom. There is no shortage of parties that compromise liberty. If I want to be a Republican, I'll vote Republican.

[JWI]

At what point does the LP abandon the idea of no income tax for a "Fair Tax" or a more fair tax system?

Oh wait, it's already happening.

So long LP, it was nice to know ya.

[Alex Libman]

LP can have a Principled wing (or several of them) and a Realist wing.  This year the realists won, and it's probably for the best.  We can continue Ron Paul's momentum, take a big-ass bite out of McCain, and maybe get SEVERAL TIMES more votes than LP has ever received before!

[mikehz]

Fortunately, the "realists" didn't win the day in 1776.

[JWI]

and the LP will prove that people don't actually want anything different.  That people don't actually believe nor want to live without an income tax.  The LP will become the third head of the same beast but spit out different rhetoric.

It's been heading this way for a long time, at least 15 years that I've seen.

Now the LP will be nothing but a bunch of "liberty" cheerleaders.  They still won't get elected but claim their few percentage point gain while sacrificing their principles is progress.

This "wing" theory is the same crap that led many people to abandon the Ds and Rs.  Congrats LP, you've destroyed yourself.

[Alex Libman]

Fortunately, the "realists" didn't win the day in 1776.

Yes they did.